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May 31, 2013 | 5:26 am

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Originally Posted by ronin308

It was definitely privacy. The June 1 deadline TSA was referring to was a requirement that all AIT machines not require a graphic image.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/18/travel/tsa-body-scanners

It was definitely "privacy" that the TSA publicly stated as the excuse. That doesn't mean it was REALLY the motivation.

Ask yourself, which sounds better on CNN?

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Originally Posted by actual CNN article

But while manufacturers of the less-intrusive "millimeter wave" machines found ways to use ATR software, backscatter machines have not. This week, the TSA announced it is ending its contract with Rapiscan "due to its inability to deploy non-imaging ATR software."

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The TSA has recently signed an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to study the scanners. If the results show, as other experts have already claimed, that the backscatter machines substantially increase the risk of cancer, TSA senior management will be held responsible in a massive class-action lawsuit.

Yeah, I'd go with story #1 if I was them.

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